
This is what happens when your SSL certificate expires
What happens when your SSL certificate expires? This.
One of the most common questions we get asked is some variation on “what happens when your SSL certificate expires?” or “what happens if you don’t renew your SSL certificates on time?”

The answer is death. Swift ignominious death. Ever wonder what happened to Jeeves? Now you know. On the death certificate his cause of death just reads: “certificate expiry.”
That was a dark day for the internet…
Ok, so maybe that’s a little bit hyperbolic (and patently untrue). But certificate expiration can have some serious consequences. Today we’re going to talk about what happens when your SSL certificate expires, we’ll toss out some infamous examples of certificate expiration and we’ll even go into how to avoid accidentally letting your SSL certificates expire.
Let’s hash it out.

